Having said that, I booted my computer up this morning after having it off for about 12 hours, and played HL2 for about an hour, completly smoothly. I noticed today that the +3.3V power supply frequently drops below the threshold of 2.9V, and usually hovers around 3.04V. I have 3.0 volts going to mine because I overclocked the FSB. I think you will want at least 2.5 volts to your ram.
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I am free thinking here, but these are all things you could diagnose without too much difficulty by popping out the ram one at a time or checking your bios for the voltage settings. Or even a bad chip that only acts up when pushed to a certain peak flow. It could also be a RAM problem that is related to voltage issues wherein you aren't getting enough volts to your memory and it craps out after being overtaxed for a period of time. However, usually if its a hardware problem you get the black screen o' death from the gitgo. Anyway, if you are saying you can run your system ok outside of games, I would hazard a guess that you have some video card related problem, that, if the rest of your system functions, is OS software/driver related, or if your whole system is funky, then hardware related. asus just releases a new version of its asusupdate bios flashing utility- I think its 6.3.01 or something like that. does your computer work ok outside of game applications? incidently, i think you mentioned you have an asus board.
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All fans are on full tilt though since I just got out of MOHAA-PA. Right now as I type this I am showing 33 for the cpu and 44 for the gpu. I hope these numbers help give you an idea of where you should be at after you get those temp monitoring utilities I mentioned. COD barely breaks a sweat and usually runs at 41-43 and the card (also water cooled) usually stays at 45-50 celsius.
My 3.4 Prescott, which are notorious for heat, runs anywhere from 33 to 49 celsius depending on how high I crank up my fans on my coolermaster aquagate and which games I run. I am not an AMD guy so I have no idea what normal temps are for them but if you are running above 60 centegrade on your vid card you might want to invest in some more cooling, or better yet chuck it out and get a 6800gt. there is also a program called speedfan 4.20 which will help diagnose temps. Also get the latest nvidia drivers, although I don't think a 4200 has gpu temp monitoring ability like the 6800's.
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Go to the asus web site and download their pcprobe utility so you can monitor your temps. I should also mention that Warcraft 3 and Civilization 3 run with no problems right now.
I also had COD installed prior to the switch, and I never had any trouble with it while it was set on the default display settings, but now it freezes. Something else that struck me as odd is that I never had any problems playing games prior to the mobo switch, I had lots of games, like Planetside, Medal of Honour, Battlefeild 1942, and Rainbow Six 3. What I don't understand is that if my computer can't handle the game, why does it run it incredibly smoothly for 10 minutes then all of a sudden, it can't handle it? I was able to fix the problem with Need for Speed by setting all the graphics to the absolute minimum, but that didn't solve the problem with the otehr two. Usually after about 10 minutes (less with Need for Speed) the game will either completly freeze up my computer, requiring a reboot, or will crash my system altogether. The problem I'm having is that the games all run very smoothly with no chugging or anything, but not forever. I haven't checked for EVE, but for the other two, I meet or exceed the recommended specs. I've installed 3 games EVE, Need for Speed Underground 2, and Call of Duty. Since then, I've been having trouble running games. About 3 months ago, I replaced my old mobo with an Asus A7N8X.